1 Stick or Two????

[coryburgess]

I have an older PC running a 2.66 Pentium 4 and an ASUS motherboard. Bought it from sony as a desktop PC VAIO.

I used SiSoftware Sandra to get some specs.
It shows that I have 3 memory slots and a maxium memory of 1GB,

Could this be 1GB per slot or 1GB for the entire board??????
AND...........
Would it be best to use a 1GB stick or two 512mb sticks???
and....
it also says in the sandra to use buffered/registered memory, but I can't find any memory with these listings????
It was using PC2600??? i believe DDR SDRAM

What are your thoughts??????
thanks

 

[akhilles]

Sandra didn't make your desktop. Sony did. Check their help site for ram compatiblity. It may be buried in some obscure documents like maintenance. Or just the user's manual.

 

[coryburgess]

I bought this as a refurbished model and never got all the manuals, I will check the website
.
I still have to ask, assuming that it is 1GB max, IS it better to use 2x512mb or 1x1Gb???

 

[zenmaster]

The difference would be very tough to tell.
On some boards 2x512mb would be better but on a 3 slotted board I don't think it matters one bit and in cases were it does, the difference is to small to be humanly perceptible.

 

[coryburgess]

Okay, thats what I figured.

So what about the Registered/buffered memory - which is what "sandra" suggestied?